The Prodigal Son of the Empire

"Ah."

The young man left after speaking.

The people in the ground network have always been like this, and then Zhang Liang started to arrange.

In fact, for this plan, they have already started preparations, as long as they start, they can quickly implement it...

A few days passed.

As usual, what the people pay attention to is the battle situation on the front line.

But there is a new topic than before.

Food prices have gone up!

In fact, food prices have been rising since a few months ago.

The long-term war has affected normal farming, and because of the great consumption of the war, the domestic food has been outflowed and the reserves are insufficient, which will naturally cause fluctuations in food prices.

However, this level is not too exaggerated, and it is still within the acceptable range.

The price is not set by anyone, but by the relationship between supply and demand.

The supply exceeds the demand, and the natural price is low.

This is determined by the market.

It is also the economic characteristic of Qi State. Except for special materials such as salt and iron, monopoly is implemented, and the court basically doesn't care about these.

This completely open policy is also the main reason why Qi has become an economically powerful country. Of course, it also has great disadvantages.

Once economic problems occur, and the court has no clear regulatory measures and no experience in dealing with them, problems will inevitably arise.

The rise in food prices has this trend everywhere.

However, the imperial court did not take any measures, because the main thing now is to fight against Chu.

The first thing to guarantee is the supply of military supplies, and they didn't take it seriously.

How could the war have no effect?

Also because of this.

Things started to go wrong.

After people talked about the war against Chu, they also started talking about food prices.

People eat for food.

Everyone should eat food.

"During this time, the price of food has risen again."

"That's right, the imperial court used troops against Chu, and the grain consumption was serious, so shouldn't the price go up?"

"The prices of all major rice shops and grain shops have gone up."

"Hey, Fuyang hasn't gone up, it's still the same price as before, what a conscience!"

"Isn't it?"

"According to the current market conditions, Fuyang is doing business at a loss."

"Maybe it's because the prodigal master is not short of money?"

"In any case, he is conscientious enough. He has indeed given benefits to the people, but there has been no news of him for a long time."

"That's right, there's been no news since the funeral of His Highness the Eighth Prince. You should go back to your country. Don't say that Young Master Kang really values ​​love and righteousness."

"Don't talk about it, I still go to buy grain, don't raise it again tomorrow, I can't afford it anymore."

People talk about it.

After all, they are all closely related to themselves.

At this time, a person suddenly ran over and said loudly: "It's not good, I just got the news that the merchant ship of Fu Yang's family capsized in a storm at sea!"

"Ah, what kind of merchant ship, the loss will be huge!"

"The merchant ships are all transporting grain, and they are transported from the south to Linzi. Now something serious has happened..."

The first thousand 320 chapters are in short supply!

The news that Fuyang's grain merchant ship was completely damaged in a storm at sea disappeared without a trace.

It is said that this batch of grain was purchased from the south to supplement the shortage in Linzi, and the quantity is huge.

Fuyang suffered heavy losses!

Some people sighed, some watched the fun, and some insiders were worried.

This batch of grain was sunk in the sea and could not flow into the market, which would inevitably make the market tight and the price would rise.

It's all a matter of obvious supply and demand.

After the incident, Fuyang announced that the price of grain in its grain stores would not increase, but purchase restrictions would be implemented, which also showed that something really went wrong.

Invisibly, it gives people a phenomenon of food shortage. If there is no food, they will naturally buy and stock up in advance to prepare for emergencies.

There were heated discussions and rumors, which even overshadowed people's attention to the war situation.

Soon, food prices will go up!

All kinds of daily food needs will increase!

And after a while, there will be no more for sale. Haven't you seen that such a large-scale store in Fuyang has started to limit purchases?

What are you waiting for, why don't you hurry up and buy it for a rainy day?

I don't know when, Linzi began to spread such news.

Word of mouth, more and more exaggerated, but also more orderly.

In order to cope with the war, the imperial court consumed a lot, and several large granaries in various regions were empty, and there were no grain reserves.

People follow blindly.

So a wave of buying grain began, to be precise, hoarding grain.